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PART I. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: GENDER AND THE CRISES OF AUTHORITY
1. Challenging authority at mid-century
2. Restoring authority, 1660-1715
PART II. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: ENGENDERING VIRTUE--POLITICS AND MORALITY IN THE AGE OF COMMERCIAL CAPITALISM
3. Challenges to virtue: The economic revolutions, 1690-1780
4. Manly dominions: war and empire, 1689-1793
5. Feminine encroachments: women, culture, and politics, 1740-89
6. Domesticating revolution, 1789-1815
PART III. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: "THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE" AND HER CRITICS--VIRTUE AND POLITICS IN THE AGE OF BOURGEOIS LIBERALISM
7. The virtues of liberalism: consolidating the domestic ideal, 1815-48
8. "The Sex": women, work, and politics, 1825-80
9. Imperial manliness, colonial effeminacy: the gender of empire, 1823-73
10. Liberalism besieged, masculinity under fire, 1873-1911
PART IV. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: CRISES OF CONFLICT, CRISES OF GENDER
11. Crises of masculinity: sex and war, 1908-18
12. Searching for peace: The reconstruction of gender, 1919-39
13. War, welfare, and postwar "consensus," 1939-63
14. The end of consensus: "permissiveness" and Mrs. Thatcher's reaction, 1963-90
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